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With the release of Windows 10 we also shipped Visual Studio Tools for Windows 10. As you will have heard Universal Windows apps written in .NET (either C# or VB) will be compiled to native machine code before being deployed to customer devices using .NET Native.

With security at the heart of Microsoft's latest operating system, and the general concern about online safety, it makes sense to put Microsoft Edge under the microscope to see how it fares against the competition.

It even run on the same engine. It would have been a lot better to just remove that piece of junk from Windows, and provide us with an option to select Chrome, Firefox, Opera or other browser while installation process.

The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~

If there is anything in that steaming pile of fail that's meaningful, it'd be the use of windows.data.pdf.dll (which I know nothing about), instead of a native browser option like pdf.js which is the default PDF viewer in FF.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

GitHub this week raised $250 million from prominent Silicon Valley venture firms, the company said. The infusion raised its valuation to about $2 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter, and brought the San Francisco company’s total funding to $350 million.

“Exercises in Programming Style” by Cristina Videira Lopes is the best programming book to come along in many years. Casting back over many decades, the only book I can compare it to in terms of actionable value is Steve McConnell’s “Code Complete,” and in terms of approachability and sheer fun, it reminds me of Ted Nelson’s classic “Computer Lib/Dream Machines.”

Modern is a Standard C++ language projection for the Windows Runtime. The Modern compiler produces a header-only library designed to provide Standard C++ developers with first-class access to the Windows API.

"What kind of fool do you think I am? To think I know nothing of the modern world"

You don’t need to use Microsoft’s own compiler because Visual Studio now also supports the popular, open Clang and LLVM compilers, as well as GCC.

How did I miss this among all the other VS15 announcements? Has anyone benched it's performance on large applications relative to MS's compiler or the OSS ones on *nix platforms? The biggest reason I'm wondering is that I know one of the reasons why FF for Windows lags the Mac/Linux versions is that it builds significantly faster on the other platforms with the natural result that the majority of their dev team works on them.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

One thing that surprised me was that the code itself was rarely the problem. He occasionally had some comments about the way I wrote or structured the code, but what I clearly had no idea about is testing my code.

Unlike with earlier Windows releases, Microsoft has now switched to a new update cadence with Windows 10, promising far more frequent improvements and additions to the OS - and the first post-launch update may be just a week away.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt

While lasers were invented in 1960 and are commonly used in many applications, one characteristic of the technology has proven unattainable. No one has been able to create a laser that beams white light.

Ning's group has already shown that their structures could cover as much as 70 percent more colors than the current display industry standard.

But 99% of software will still assume an sRGB color space and over-saturate colors on anything else.

Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius

Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt